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1111 Main Street,Wayne, NE 68787

About Wayne State College

Wayne State College is a leading comprehensive college in Northeast Nebraska distinguished by providing educational excellence in a small, personalized setting. It’s located on a 128-acre campus and boasts a 19:1 student-to-faculty ratio. It’s best known for its friendly atmosphere, exceptional academic reputation, success of its graduates and its affordability.

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Wayne State College began because citizens of the city of Wayne committed substantial time and resources to establishing a college in their community. The college has provided services and programs that enrich the lives of individuals and communities throughout the region, but most importantly it has provided an access to quality and affordable higher education to people who otherwise might not have had that opportunity.

In September 1891, James Pile, a math professor from Fremont, and citizens of Wayne founded Nebraska Normal College. The school began with a four-person faculty and a student body of seven. Nearly two decades later, more than 1,000 students were attending the school each year. The state purchased Nebraska Normal College, and it became Nebraska State Normal College on April 6, 1909.

The following historical account is excerpted from Far From Normal! 100 Years of Educational Excellence, published in 2010 to mark Wayne State's 100th year as a state college. Dr. Kent Blaser, (1949-2010) professor of history at Wayne State College from 1979 to 2009, wrote the history of the period from 1891 to 1970. Roger Mancastroppa, a former history instructor at Wayne State, wrote about the period from 1970 to the present. Marcus Schlichter, Wayne State archivist, contributed biographical sketches of the leading figures of the college.

Wayne State came into existence because citizens of the city of Wayne committed substantial time and resources to establishing a college in their community. The school they created became a state college in 1910 to serve the people of a wider northeast Nebraska community. Regional and community service has been central to the mission of Wayne State ever since. And because northeast Nebraska is primarily a rural area, serving a small town, rural constituency with a unique set of needs and characteristics has been one of the college’s main strengths and responsibilities. The college has provided services and programs that enrich the lives of individuals and communities throughout the region, but most importantly it has provided an access to quality and affordable higher education to people who otherwise might not have had that opportunity.

No one could begin to know or recount all of the many ways in which Wayne State has affected the lives its students, and through them the lives of countless others. One of the school’s earliest and most famous graduates, Nebraska poet laureate John G. Neihardt, captured something of this mystery in describing how the College and its faculty had affected his life and career as a poet: “Often there came upon me,” he wrote, “a thrilled sense of expectancy, as though something particularly glorious were getting ready to happen all at once. I would try to think what made me feel so, but reasons seemed not to apply. It was simply ‘in the air’... It was as though the little college had been created for me. It released me from the listless boredom I had come to feel in school and lifted me to a higher, creative level of being.”

Birthdays and anniversaries for organizations and institutions are often not as tidy and precise as they are for people. Such is the case for Wayne State College. There were several important events in its early history. Among them Sept. 19, 1910, stands out prominently. On that date a newly authorized institution of higher education, officially christened a “Nebraska State Normal School,” opened its doors to students, joining two already existing state normal schools in Peru and Kearney. During the course of the next 100 years, that school would grow and develop into the Wayne State College of today.

The Wayne State College Library has more than 350,000 volumes housed in more than 75,000 square feet. The library has 60 laptops available for students to check out to use in a totally wireless environment. Online access is provided to 40,000 journals and approximately 200,000 e-books. The library’s special collections include the Val Peterson papers, the Robert Zahniser film collection and the Children’s Book Examination Center.

Wayne State College provides high-speed or wireless internet connections to each student. All WSC residence halls and most WSC administration buildings provide wireless service.

Each WSC academic building contains more than one smart classroom, also known as technology enhanced classrooms, which create new opportunities in teaching and learning by integrating networking, digital and audio visual technologies.

There are three types of rooms in each residence hall:

Standard Rooms are designed for multiple occupants and have been assigned to meet the rooms capacity. These include standard double, triple and quad occupancy rooms.

Premium Rooms are designed for multiple occupants that have dropped below the rooms capacity. When this happens, the remaining resident or residents are given the option to buy out the remaining space and keep these larger rooms as private accommodations. For example, one resident living in a standard double occupancy room electing to retain the room as a private would pay the premium room rate.

Single Rooms are only capable of holding a single occupant. These rooms by design are smaller than a Standard Room.

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